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The keynote talks will be given by health services leaders as well as prominent academics involved in health operational research. Confirmed invited speakers include:

Patients, Providers and p-values: any significance?
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh (NHS Medical Director)

Health Care Delivery Faces Many Strategic and Tactical Problems but We Are Making Progress in Many Areas
Prof William Pierskella Ph.D. (UCLA Anderson School of Management, USA)
William P. Pierskalla, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management in the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He is also the Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  He was Dean of the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.  He holds the A.B. in Economics and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University, an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University.  His current interests include operations research, operations management, issues of global competition and the management and delivery aspects of health care delivery. 

Dr. Pierskalla is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA).  He was President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.  He has been on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Encyclopedia of Operations Research & Management Science  and Health Care Management Science Journal and has served on many other editorial boards.  He was Vice President for Publications of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.  He was President of the Operations Research Society of America, and is a past Editor‑in‑Chief of Operations Research. He is the 1989 recipient of the George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service to the Operations Research Society of America and to the field of Operations Research and the 2005 INFORMS President’s Award given to work that advances the welfare of society.
 
Previously he was the Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, the Director of the Huntsman Center for Global Competition and Leadership, Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Chairman of the Health Care Systems Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Prior to his positions at Wharton, he was on the faculties of Northwestern University, Southern Methodist University and Case Institute of Technology and has worked at Westinghouse Electric Corporation.  He is a current board member of the Phoenix Health Systems Corp. He was a board member of the Archibald Bush Foundation (chairman 2002-2007), the Griffin Funds, the Northern Trust Bank of California, the iRise Corporation, Northern Wilderness Adventures Inc. and the Office Tenants Network Corporation.  He has consulted to many business, educational and governmental organizations.   He has given numerous lectures and seminars at Universities and organizations in the North and South Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia and has refereed articles in mathematical programming, transportation, inventory and production control, maintainability and health care delivery.  For more information, please visit http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/william.pierskalla/

Queue Modelling and Healthcare: chalk and cheese or fish and chips?
Dr David Worthington (Lancaster University Management School)

The maths behind a hospital’s heart failure [Download Presentation .ppt 290KB]
Kate Silvester BSc MBA FRCOphth (Clinical Systems Improvement)
Kate Silvester originally trained and practised as an ophthalmologist.  In 1991 she retrained as a manufacturing systems engineer and spent seven years in management consultancy transferring manufacturing principles to service industries such as banking, airlines and healthcare. 

In 1999 she rejoined the UK's National Health Service and worked on many national programmes improving the flow of patients through the system, thus addressing timeliness, cost and quality.  Kate’s specific area of expertise is in the management of organisational systems to address the variability in demand and capacity.  In November 2007 she joined the EU-Japan World Class Manufacturing Programme to translate the Lean Thinking approach into Healthcare. She was appointed an Honorary Associate Professor, in the Health Sciences Research Institute at Warwick Medical School in January 2009. She is currently sponsored by The Health Foundation and leads an ‘Inquiry into Flow, Cost and Quality’ with South Warwickshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.